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Summer II classes start July 14th
Don’t miss out on your last chance to take classes this summer! The second 5-week summer II session starts July 14th. Summer classes are a great opportunity to pick up an extra course and be one step closer to your degree.
NE Texas blackberries: It’s cobbler time!
There are blackberries, and then there are 21st century NE Texas blackberries. You might have lived here long enough to remember Grandma telling the neighborhood kids, “There’ll be cobbler tonight, after you pick the blackberries.” (She probably called them dewberries, and she was right.) Those thorny canes, and the snakes and the chiggers associated with berry picking, dissuaded some blackberry pickers, but the sight of Grandma rolling dough made many grab their pails and head to the woods. “There’ll be cobbler tonight!”
Helping a friend expand his apiary
We encourage new beekeepers to start with a minimum of two colonies – three is even better. The first year – or second or third year – most NewBees trundle along learning how to go from being a bee-haver to being a bee-keeper. They learn to recover from queenlessness and how to harvest honey. They discover the “real” reason they are in beekeeping when the going gets tough. Sometimes they also discover that they just like being outdoors keeping bees on their 30+ acres of raw land. Just themselves and the bees, and the flowers and the trees (there’s a song in here somewhere) can make for a great morning activity.
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